Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-02
DAILY HERALD.
THOSE PACKAGES.
Il. A. Mackenzie Arrested
by the U. s. Marshal
FoR ROBBERY OF THE NAILS.
bonds Fixed at $10,O00-The Conn.,
plant Sworn to by Post
Master Green.

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% | Of May the HERALD contained an
account Of registered package whicn
mystsriously disappeared from the Post
office on Saturday. the 2lst. That dis
appearance was probably explained by
An arrest which took place yesterday
afternoon. When the package disap'
ueared Il appeared that shortly before
4 O'Clock on Saturday. May 2lst. sew.
eral pouches containing registered
packages were made up by Mailing
Clerk Blake. These pouches were des.
tiucd for Pasadena, South Pasadena,
L,manda Park and Long Beach. There
were numerous packages for Pasadena
and L>manda Park, but only one for
Lang Beach. After these packages had
bsen carefully placed in the pouches Mr.
Blake started to 90 home. but Tor some
reason revisited the Postoffice, and nap
pepinq to look in the pouch for Long
Beach. found that it was empty, He
Immediately notified his superior, As
.istant Postmaster McCurdie, who also
examined the Long Beach pouch, but
found that it contained nothing. Deem
ing II better to be certain that
no one in the Office had the
missing package on his person, he sent
out and secured the services OF Two po'
lice officers, who searched all the en-
pIoy6s of the Office. including the two
mailing clerks, Blake and Mckenzie. In
whose charge the mailing table had been
placed. The search was fruitless, for
the package was not found on the per.
sons Of any Of the employees. 1t was
then suspected that the package might
have been placed by accident in one OF
the pouches for either Pasadena, South
Pasadena or Lamanda Park, which had
been made up at the same time. Tele-
grams were sent to those places. but only
one answer was received from Pasadena.
The Postmaster at that place stated that
the missing package was not IN MS
pouch. No answer was expected from
either South Pasadena or Lamauda Park
until the following day, when it was
hoped word would be received that the
package had been found. This was not
the frat package which had mysterious
" disappeared. Within the previous
three weeks, two other packages dis
appeared here or at Santa Monica. II
appeared that there was no mail agent
on the route. and the pouches were
locked here and opened at Santa Mon
lea, key being kept at both places.
The packages, therefore, must have been
taken either at this end or at Santa
Monica.
Answers were received from South
Pasadena and Lamanda Park, but the
package did not turn up at either place
and It then became certain that it had not
been missent, but had been taken at
this end of the route. This made it very
unpleasant for the employees, for until
the guilty party was discovered all felt
that they were under suspicion. The
matter was placed in the hands of In.
spector Culver, who went quietly but
determinedly to work to discover the
culprit. Just how many plans or what
methods were used in the search have
not been made public. but that there
were many is very certain. On May 9th
Q registered package containing $40 in
Qreenbaoks addressed to Mrs. A. 9.
Adams at Santa Monica disappeared in
such q manner that the onus rested upon
one of two persons, the mailing clerk
here who signed for it or the postmis.
tress at Santa Monica, who did not lind
il in the pouch. When 1t became
known that the package had been taken
the matter was placed in the hands OF
U. s. District Attorney Brooks and in
conjunction with Inspector Culver and
U. 5. Marshal Risley, the testimony has
been sifted very carefully. They
were 90 careful that they consumed
two and half days in the investigation
and their conclusion was such that a
warrant was sworn to by Postmaster
Green yesterday morning for the
arrest of Bert A. Mackenzie, who had
been the mailing clerk and who had been
suspended after the disappearance OF
the last package. Mackenzie had gone
to Santa Monica and word was sent to
the Constable at that place, who arrest
ed him and brought him to this city,
where he was delivered to the U. 3.
Marshal's deputies shortly after half
past four o'clock. He was taken before
u. s. Commissioner Van Dyke, who, at
the request of Mr.. Brooks fixed the bail
at $500 cash or $40. 900 bonds. The ex-
animation will take place before Com.
missioner Van Dyke this morning at 10
o'clock.
An attempt was made to furnish bonds
yesterday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
Mackenzie a. sureties, but U. s. District
Attorney Brooks became satisfied upon
an examination of Mrs. Mackenzie that
she could not properly justify to the
amount necessary and Commissioner
Van Dyke refused TO accept them as
Bonds had not been furnished
up to late hour last night when Bert
A. Mackenzie was registered at the St:
Elmo, where he remained in charge OF
Deputy U. 8. Marshal K. A. Preuss.